By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — This Sunday, as two Popes with sympathetic ties to the Jewish people were beatified, I sent the Hebrew blessing for hope to the Catholic house. It’s been my experience, personal and through the lens of history, that Rome has made genuine efforts to confront its longstanding degradation of […]
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InternationalBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM–An annual report on Anti-Semitism worldwide during 2013 was released Sunday, April 27, a day before Israel marks Yom Hashoa, the Holocaust day. The report, compiled by Prof. Dina Porat of the Moshe Kantor database for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University in cooperation with the European Jewish
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International
MOSCOW, Russia (Press Release)– More than 1,000 young Russian Jews came together in Moscow this weekend for the ninth Limmud FSU Moscow conference, which unveiled new findings about this generation of post-Soviet Jews. This is the ninth Limmud FSU Moscow conference, organized entirely by a local team of volunteers in what is the biggest Jewish
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International
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — They are a familiar site in Jerusalem and across Israel – United Hatzalah volunteers rushing in their orange vests and red motorcycles to save lives during calls of emergency distress. Each of the 2,100 registered volunteers which include secular Israelis, Ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, settlers, and citizens across the spectrum, carry
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — An IDF doctor’s life-saving actions averted a tragedy which may have struck a Palestinian family. On Friday night, in the Palestinian village of Beitin near Ramallah, a month-old baby Palestinian baby started to choke in her home while playing with her sister. The mother brought the baby to an
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The American Jewish Committee’s executive director, David Harris, said he was “dismayed” by racist comments attributed to Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and said the NBA should take action against the basketball team owner. While the Jewish organization did not say so in its press release, it’s
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Sports & Competitions, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The language of empathy is hardwired into the consciousness of many higher mammals. Human beings share the capacity to experience empathy for others. Of course, human beings are different in one basic respect from the animal kingdom. Whereas empathy is something that is instinctual in the
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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastBy Debra DeLee WASHINGTON, D.C. — APN (Americans for Peace Now)’s position is clear: Negotiations are the only route to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the only resolution to this conflict will be a mutually agreed-on two-state solution. However, the past nine months of peace efforts, led with admirable commitment and energy by Secretary of
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Middle East, USABy Marti Emerald SAN DIEGO — Did you know that an employee making the minimum wage in San Diego cannot meet the basic cost of living? A minimum wage job pays $16,000 a year and the cost of living in the region is nearly double that at $30,000 a year. In addition, nearly half of
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Adventures in SD HistoryWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, met on Friday, April 25, with reporters in Kyiv, Ukraine, during a visit there. Following are Levin’s opening remarks as prepared for delivery: “Today I am completing a two-day visit to Ukraine to understand the security situation facing this country. I have met
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International
By Jeremy Ogul Mission Times Courier SAN DIEGO — After narrowly defeating incumbent Paul Pfingst in 2002, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis sailed through the 2006 and 2010 elections unopposed. Now, nearly 12 years into her tenure as San Diego County’s top prosecutor, two challengers are waging campaigns to oust her. One is Bob Brewer, a
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Walking with the Enemy belongs to a cycle of recent movies like Black Book, Army of Crime, Defiance, Inglourious Basterds, and Süskind which portray Jews actively resisting the Holocaust. With the exception of Tarantino’s counterfactual picture, these films are docudramas inspired by real events. Walking with the Enemy chronicles the German
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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron
By Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas — Dutch Jews suffered immensely and disproportionately so under the Nazis in World War II. Out of 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands at the outbreak of the war, some 107,000 Jews were deported to death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. At the
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